Hi boosters, The marketing team has been brainstorming on how to give ambassadors a tad more attention in openSUSE; motivate them to make a bit more noise; and reward them for what they do. Now we have a few ideas, but for one, we thought it might make sense to use connect. Yes, it could probably be done via the wiki and other ways but I know you guys have a hammer and might see this as a nail :D *what is the problem* the ambassadors _sometimes_ create event reports. We want those reports for several reasons: - to have an idea of what they are doing - to measure how much we do - to motivate others - to SHOW what we do Unfortunately, not so many event reports are made although we're fairly sure many events have openSUSE attendance. This is due to several issues. *First*, not all ambassadors are so connected to us - many are not 'official ambassador' or their English skills are minimal and they are not internationally involved. I will send a follow-up mail with ideas on how to solve that. *Second*, filling in an event report on the wiki is not exactly easy for many. Some send one by mail - which is fine but leaves little record. *Third*, the reports receive little visibility. They are mentioned somewhere in the weekly news if you're lucky and of course on the marketing ML, but that's it pretty much. Numbers in it are not saved, we don't realy do anything with it as there is no real easy record. *The solution?* Ideally, the reports would end up in a central place, some database... And ideally, they would be connected to the ambassadors - so they can build up a trackrecord of events they have visited. Once we have this we can also show reports on eg news.o.o in a feed box on the side for example, or on our homepage. We can analyze and use statistics (for promo), promote events, do monthly articles - all kinds of things. We have an events page on en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassador_events which suffers from similar issues - most people don't create a page because it is not easy and not localized. *connect.o.o* In short. We wonder - would Connect not offer a much better way of handeling events, event reports and the like? Would it not offer a better place for ambassador user accounts (with associated event reports as track records)? Culd it offer an easy place for ambassadors to add info for an event and afterwards add a report & pictures which we can then display in the planet feed (localized, if needed)? In case you think this is relevant, chuck and manu might have some time to help with this both in 'how to do it' (I would also love to think abou that) and the doing itself. Cheers, Jos
On 2011-03-15 Jos wrote:
Hi boosters,
<snip dreaming> I've heard a little bird (ok, huge one) whisper to (yell at) me that I wasn't concrete enough. So, let's remedy that. Let me give a usecase. Note that for 90% of what's needed I have already added requests in Fate, see my other mail! And some things are already implemented by Henne. ==== use case ==== You're a Dutch ambassador and there's going to be an event. You want to organize an openSUSE booth & talks for this event and get the word out on that to everyone. So you create an event page in the calendar on Connect with data on the location and time, link to the site and the logo of the event. You set yourself as organizer and ask other ambassadors to add themselves as either speakers or ambassadors for the booth. Add a list of materials and ask the othe ambassadors to add what things they can bring, like laptops, networking gear and power connectors. Add a list with arrival- and departure times and let people say if they need travel sponsorship - once you have a clear overview of what is needed, you can discuss it with whomever has budget for this (marketing team/board/sponsors). The page will show up in the event calendar for your group (local dutch openSUSE team) and in the "upcoming events" calendar on news.opensuse.org! So you spread the word using this link and get people to show up there; you click the button "create a facebook event" and invite people there; you tweet/dent the event to your followers and add it to your own calendar downloading the ical file or clicking the google calendar button. Once you've attended the event, you add a picture gallery with photo's of the event and some info about how it went to the event page. Then tick the "event report done" box! The page now shows up in "events openSUSE has attended" on news.o.o and the report will be in OWN. Maybe it will even be part of the monthly news article on events in the past month & what's upcoming! The page now also shows up on your profile under "events this ambassador has organized" and the other ambassadors and speakers see their attendance on their pages as well. Isn't it awesome ;-) *Why connect?* In short, connect offers two big advantages over the wiki: a MUCH lower barrier to entry (big issue for the ambassadors!) and much more opportunities to automate and link things like the facebook and twitter buttons, ical files, integration in news.o.o, the tracking-of-events etcetera. Then of course connect is inherently a lot more social than the wiki - and for the work the ambassadors do that is exactly what is needed! The tracking of events & linking it to those who've been there offers very nice things: you can see who our most active ambassadors are and who's less active; you can see where we have events and where not. The lower barrier will hopefully lead to more and more ambassadors actually USING these facilities, which in turn gives us a better oversight. This will be/is needed to be able to plan things like ambassador travel/hotel sponsoring or the sending of materials! Cheers, Jos
Cheers, Jos
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